History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c71.s1.4

v5.c71.s1.4

The Ṛgveda is full of fervent and heart-felt expressions of the sense of sin and betrays intense desire on the part of the sages of old to be free from it The idea of sin in the Ṛgveda is bound up with the conception of *ṛta*. The conception of ṛta cannot be discussed here in detail But a brief statement is absolutely necessary in order to be able to convey what the Vedic doctrine of sin was ²